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Long-Term Investments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]  
Long-Term Investments
6. LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
As of December 31, 2024 and 2025, the Company held equity investments in several privately-held and listed companies with the carrying value as follows:
 
    
Percentage
of Ownership
   
December 31
 
    
2024
   
2025
   
2024
    
2025
 
                
US$
    
US$
 
Non-marketable
equity securities:
         
Cashido Corp.
(Cashido)
     0     0     —         —   
Vastview Technology, Corp. (Vastview)
     0     0     —         —   
Kinara, Inc (Kinara)
     12     0     6,500        —   
      
 
 
    
 
 
 
         6,500        —   
Marketable equity securities:
      
BIWIN Storage Technology Corp. (BIWIN)
     0     0     6,034        11,432  
Shenzhen Techwinsemi Technology Corp (TWSC)
     0     0     4,792        18,244  
      
 
 
    
 
 
 
         17,326        29,676  
      
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
In June 2018, the Company invested US$
3,000
 thousand in the preferred stock of Kinara which is accounted for under the cost method. Kinara, previously known as Deep Vision, is a developer of
low-power
deep-learning processors. In March 2020 and May 2021, the Company invested US$
2,000
 thousand and US$
1,500
 thousand, respectively, in the preferred stock of Kinara. In November 2025, the Company disposed all of Kinara and recognized a disposal gain of US$
21,076
 thousand.
In July 2021, the Company invested US$
2,041
 
thousand in the common stock of BIWIN, which is a leading module maker in China focusing on solid state storage devices. BIWIN is one of our customers and was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of Shanghai Stock Exchange in December 2022. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company disposed of common stock of BIWIN with a carry value of US$4,374 thousand and recognized a disposal gain of US$58 thousand. For the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Company recorded an unrealized holding gain of US$
8,002
 thousand,
an 
unrealized holding loss US$
76
 thousand, and
an 
unrealized holding gain US$
5,204
 thousand, respectively, related to BIWIN.
In December 2024, the Company invested US$4,173 thousand in the common stock of TWSC, which is a leading module maker in China focusing on solid state storage devices and is one of our customers and was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2022. The Company had unrealized holding gains of US$619 thousand and US$13,196 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively.